Uanditrade is a website where parents can trade kids clothes. We encourage parent to take their children’s used clothing items and re purpose them. By re purpose or recycling them we as a community will reduce the demand for new products creating a cleaner healthier environment.
Instead of using money to make trades happen, Uanditrade uses a point system to conduct transactions. Uanditrade is a completely free site, the only money someone would use is to ship an item to another member.
The biggest challenge with trading items is for parent to get rid of the stigma of “My kid has to have new stuff”. Somewhere in the last 70 years, accepting used clothing, used books or used toys became socially unacceptable.
As a young man myself I remember getting a pair of jeans from the boy across the street and I didn’t want to wear them because I went to school with him and people might recognize the jeans as his, embarrassing me (I was in 4th grade). Now as an adult I have several items that have been gently used that I wear. One of them is my favorite Sport Coat that I get complements on all the time.
That is the best part about UandITrade, you can trade with people across the nation and now your item is NEW TO YOU and nobody needs to know how you got it if you don’t want to tell them.
One other stigma about used clothing I hear about is, “oh, used clothing it’s going to be stained and torn up”. When I hear that, I wonder how that person takes care of their stuff. My family takes great pride in caring for their items and so do the members on UandItrade . I have personally received beautiful dresses and clothes that I feel great sending my daughter to school in. Just remember used doesn’t mean damaged.
Next time your son or daughter grows out of something, ask yourself if it still fit would you let them wear it. If the answer is yes, trade it online at UandITrade.com
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